Effects of molecular structure on oxidation reactivity of cyclic hydrocarbons: Experimental observations and conformational analysis

Y Yang; AL Boehman; JM Simmie

Journal article

Effects of molecular structure on oxidation reactivity of cyclic hydrocarbons: Experimental observations and conformational analysis

Y Yang, AL Boehman, JM Simmie

Combustion and Flame | Published : 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.04.015

Abstract

This work concerns the pre-ignition reactivity of cyclic hydrocarbons and its dependence on cyclic structures. In the first part, global reactivity of five cyclic hydrocarbons, methylcyclopentane (MCP), cyclohexane (CH), methylcyclohexane (MCH), decahydronaphthalene (decalin), and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene (tetralin), whose detailed product analyses were recently reported [Y. Yang, A.L. Boehman, Proc. Combust. Inst. 32(1) (2009) 419-426; Y. Yang, A.L. Boehman, Combust. Flame 157(3) (2010) 495-505], were compared over a range of compression ratio and intake temperature in a motored engine. Molecular structure exerts a profound effect on low temperature oxidation reactivity. Decalin is the..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Yi Yang Author

Grants

Awarded by U.S. Department of Energy

Funding Acknowledgements

[ "The authors thank the Department of Energy for support of Project Grant DE-FC26-03NT41828. The authors also thank Daniel Strope, George Parks, Garry Gunter and Bradley Taylor of ConocoPhillips for their support of this work.", "Computational resources were provided by the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, ICHEC, and supported by an EU Transfer of Knowledge Grant (MKTD-CT-2004-517248)." ]